Plex & Locast: Recording Local TV Without the Antenna
Update: Locast has ceased operations. Old post archived here: I have been a long time Plex user for years. Alongside my extensive movie collection, I also …
Plexamp Music Streaming with Raspberry Pi Zero
I’ve been a Plex user for a very long while. They’ve recently put a lot of effort into the re-vamped Plexamp music player and it’s quickly …
Self Hosting: Nextcloud with DigitalOcean Spaces for Main Storage
It has been over a year since I originally set up my own self-hosted cloud using Nextcloud. I am happy to report back that I absolutely …
My Node-Red Smart Alarm Clock with Snooze
Definitely one of my very favorite features of my smart house is my alarm clock. Which is funny because I am not a morning person at all and …
Automating Dumb Devices with Node-Red and Home Assistant
Here in coastal California, air conditioning is extremely uncommon. So during a recent heat wave, I got desperate and went down to the big box store …
Installing Volumio in a Proxmox Virtual Machine
Volumio is a really cool open source audio player project, meant for high quality playback and easy use with cheap devices. Basically, a plug-and-play network music …
Self Hosting: Complete Guide to Deploying Your Own Private NextCloud with Docker Compose
With all the revelations in the headlines about how exactly our private data is being mined to surveil and manipulate us, I’ve been thinking of more …
Pi to NUC Part 1: Migrating Hass.IO to a Virtual Machine with Proxmox & Docker
As my Home Assistant setup has become increasingly complex, I’ve started to see the limitations of the Raspberry Pi platform. Graphs are slow, and the history …
The Cheapest WiFi Smart Switch: Flashing the Sonoff Basic
Setting up a smart home can be a costly affair, if every device needed an expensive proprietary smart switch you would spend quite a bit of …
Location Aware Notification Lights with Node-Red and IFTTT
I am in the habit of going on cooking sprees while listening to music… loudly. I only share one wall with a neighbor here in the …